skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, it was a spectacularly bad example. Climate change is a belief which is not only well supported by evidence, but also one which belief in has a generally negative payoff (it makes us feel bad about our foreign holiday and makes entire countries switch to more expensive energy supplies) and not one which is likely to make you any more popular at picnics than bringing up the subject of the minimum wage. Needless to say there's also plenty of literature on incentive structures and practical limitations which discourage humanity from doing more. Of course, it's possible to become a climate activist to try to impress others, or to avoid making what you feel is a completely watertight argument in favour of Big Oil to avoid being accused of being a monster, but I don't think this incentive structure explains why so many people believe what their teacher and news anchor and favourite documentary presenter tell them about what scientists think.

Indeed I'm reminded of earlier in the piece where the author argues that 'crony beliefs' encompasses the tendency to "bristle and hold unorthodox beliefs, in order to demonstrate that we're independent thinkers" earlier in the piece. In this case, it's not to difficult to see how the edgy example of how everyone else might be acknowledging well established scientific fact in bad faith (or due to inappropriately motivated reasoning) validates the rationalist community's core beliefs in prediction markets and how superior their way of reasoning is to the average person

That argument also, incidentally, actually fails the author's own implicit test for a 'merit' belief (i.e something the author actually acts on or would with better incentive structures).
LZ4 is so fast there’s almost no reason to NOT have it on for zfs volumes.
We were amazed at how far we were able to get with them – if solving a problem with a regular expression produces two problems, we should now have 13,000 problems. The fact that they worked so well is due to the work of the subeditor who compiled (and still maintains!) the rule corpus – as well as the sheer volume, there are quite a few carefully ordered rules. Because style guide matches are reasonably sparsely found in content, and usually reasonably specific as to what matches (even if it's difficult to produce a correction) it turned out to be a surprisingly tractable problem to produce something useful with regular expressions alone – but we'd never have discovered that was the case unless someone had spent literally years doing it!

General maintainability is a priority, and we'd like to improve our rule management tooling to make the process of rule maintance generally accessible to editorial staff. We're also working on making noisy rules match more specifically, which usually involves migrating the initial regex into Languagetool for e.g. pattern-matching on part-of-speech.
One could argue that the first version is Archaic, and Renaissance the second attempt
Excession was by far my favourite. I think the concepts were the most interesting to me, and it wove the smaller more personal plots well into the grander opera.
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These make for cracking server names...
Crazy price bumps.

I love open source and want to support GutLab but it is now significantly cheaper to use something like Azure DevOps instead: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azu...
The usual way is someone writing a better paper and everyone going "yeah, that's a better reading of the data".

Not sure why you say correcting an established consensus would be unrewarding? Sure, for unimportant details getting a correction out isn't much fun, but correcting an important point is basically the career goal of every scientist precisely because it is important and rewarding.
We didn’t need it, but it does make content better.

Most of the problematic javascript that exists isn’t “content”, or even “apps”, it’s surveillance capitalism, attention capital and advertising.
It says 'disabled by default'. Which means, you can enable it.

Also, this kind of a browser is not really for the general populace.

I mostly browse with Javascript disabled. If a site doesn't work without Javascript, I have a shortcut key to enable it.
Use of Ivermectin as a potential chemoprophylaxis for Covid-19 in Egypt
the forest was bought by IKEA as part of a strategy to reduce more carbon than it creates through its value chain

They might want to write that into their books, but note that by buying an existing forest, no additional CO2 reduction is achieved on a global scale.
> Additionally it offers a training mode to tune the algorithm to increase compression ratio on specific types of data

Yes, however there is usually no facility to train your compression algo with most tools using ZSTD.
A shame ...
For some code, yes. What about a complete refactor of the core functionality of said program, with parallelism and the like?
You're confusing iterating towards a product-market fit and the craft of building things. Most time (in my opinion) is spent on engineering circlejerking in the background of the product instead of delivering visible/valuable parts.

To continue your analogy it would be like hiring script writers, camera operators and editors basically off the street that have never worked on similar projects, raising money and hiring more of them when things don't go as well and spending most of the time figuring out how does one make a movie instead of focusing on the creative parts
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State of Cloudnative Release Orchestration 2021
Hi all, CTO and cofounder of Vamp.io here.

We've just released(sic) our report on the 2021 state of cloudnative release orchestration, and i feel there are some interesting insights to be learned from it.

It seems "dependency-hell" and costly manual release-validation are some of the more pressing challenges in the devops, kubernetes and cloudnative space.

Do you agree, disagree? Do you miss any specific topics that you are currently struggling with or focusing on? All feedback is welcome!

https://blog.vamp.io/the-state-of-cloud-native-release-orchestration-2021/
This is true, and in my opinion there is one more tendency which you also imply.

Not only the public at large, but even University graduates start to an extent distrusting those who are "professionals" in academia. It is simply a whole other world, where you are only judged by the number of papers under your name, perhaps never having contributed to anything practical - seems so detached from real life.
Hmm. Maybe we shouldn't let unlicensed hobbyists expose their software to the internet - plenty of other things are too dangerous for unlicensed hobbyists to do. Though frankly the standard of commercial code is no better at the moment.
xUSD seems to be worth $0.94 at this time on: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/xusd-stable/

Sounds like a near stable coin but 6% depreciation is still not stable.
The paper was not accepted at that point. He could just denied publication out of spite. I played the odds, and got published, despite doing that.

I'm sorry the story ended badly :) and yes - I've lowered the bar, sadly.
Haven't China been the obvious world power for atleast 10 years now?

Or, atleast, that it have been obvious that they will soon be...
Unfortunately this happens in astronomy in non-Chinese journals too.
At least in Germany, I think you can absolutely compare the usage of retro computers to the usage of retro cars. Noone uses their retro car for day-to-day business. They maybe use it to drive out on a warm summer day, but not to go to work. Just like how you'd use a retro computer in your spare time to enjoy some classic games and not to post on Hacker News or get actual work done.

Technically, sure, you can use your retro car every day. But most people don't, probably because it would be less practical and also lower the value of the car over time.
hey yclurker, Supabase founder here.

I'm sorry we haven't delivered a better self-hosting experience. This is clearly something we could do better. As I mentioned in your link[1], we're targeting a release of our CLI in Q1 (last week of march).

> its a been long time since their launch

It has been 8 months since our alpha launch*, and just over 1 month since our beta. I hope that sets some context, because personally I think we (and the community) have delivered a lot in that time. I'm very proud of what our small team has been able deliver.

> The product is not self hostable

Note that Supabase is self-hostable, it's just lacking documentation, which we will rectify in Q1.

[*alpha]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319901\*
The problem is that there is no working system in place that makes such abuses of scientific truth visible.

We would need to get away from inefficient communication via publications and set a system in place that tracks findings in detail, and whether they can be replicated first.

But there is no willingness to do so after the US of A deeply harmed the scientific mission and academics by introducing infuriatingly dumb economical incentives into science.
i run my own dag-bin with tagging, sorting, filtering.
Weird that the page doesn't list macOS or other Apple's OS in the list of operating systems with LZ4 support.
Its yearly co2 consumption that they are responsible for sustaining. The plants are already consuming co2, this way that will continue to be the case.
Well, if that move keeps it from being cut (as evidently was the case), I'd prefer this over the unhealthy new forests that are ecologically unsound but are purely for bookkeeping CO2.
I agree about secure languages. Last week I was daydreaming about reimplementing all non-RT parts in Lua.
Spotify's own clients basically download encrypted data, decrypt with the song's key, decode the vorbis and write PCM audio to the audio device like normal. Does anyone know how Widevine fits into this? What does it actually do in the case of audio (video I can imagine is different since there's DRM support baked into the output device, as I understand it)?
How much would buying all the Brazilian rain forest cost the world, or even renting it from Brazil? We would need it to be slightly more than cattle farming to work... but I’d happily pay towards this.
> The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong.

From SlateStarCodex: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...
Could you elaborate a bit about which other systems have been tried, that weren't as successful?
Packed – Vim-like ultra dark user interface for Sublime Text 3
> Most of the ones that get attention are BS

Arsenic life was the big one when I was a postdoc

Tardigrade DNA is a new one, so popular that it became a major plot point in Star Trek. Turned out it was probably just a sloppy grad student not being careful with their samples/not taking into account microbes physically hitching a ride on the tardigrade
I think the point is not that "all speech should be suppressed", but that, generally speaking, the suppression of speech should not be disallowed. Users and employees should be allowed to pressure companies to suppress hate speech; a bar owner should be allowed to kick into the street a racist and profane customer; a school should be able to fire a teacher who is getting a lot of complaints for teaching racist ideas or gaslighting students.

It would be a horrible outcome if speech maximalism succeeded and prevented people from acting to protect their customers, property, society, etc., against destructive speech.

Of course, you can say "yeah but if you allow suppression of speech then it'll be used for evil" -- as in, Twitter can kick off whoever they want. But going as far as legally protecting any and all speech, in any situation and on any public or private property, is far more destructive in my opinion.
> I have fairly small hands and I feel that my hands have to reach more using this keyboard than with other split keyboards I’ve used

The Moonlander has a lot of key rows for a "flat" keyboard so there's going to be some reaching if you use them all. I have relatively large/long hands and coming from a Kinesis Advantage (which has a similar number of rows) it was a lot of reaching for the top and bottom rows, especially the corner keys. I ended up putting a lot more keycodes on layers to get around it.

But I ended up building a Bastyl last month: https://www.hidtech.ca/?product=bastyl#tab-description

I still get QMK and the true split design (which helps with my shoulders) but I also get the curved keywells back so I can hit everything on the keyboard pretty easily. I did lose that bottom row but I just pushed the useful keys to the thumb cluster.
> How long do you think it should take to build software?

About as long as it takes to figure out what the software should do. Add one day for each 1000 lines of code for typing carefully and adding automated tests.
The size of an Orbital is dictated by day length and surface "gravity" - they are arguably more elegant than Niven style Rings which need a lot of extra stuff to generate day/night cycles (shadow squares?).
I think the point of GP's story is that this isn't just one or two bad apples here and there, but it's endemic in that domain - and most likely in others too (I'm leaning to believe that; it's not the first story like this I've read in recent years).

Being an endemic problem means you have to switch your assumptions; when reading a random scientific paper, you're no longer thinking, "this is probably right, but I must be wary of mistakes" - you're thinking, "this is most likely utter bullshit, but maybe there's some salvageable insight in it".
lpd/lpr can be used for e.g. a playlist/queue for music https://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/2003/05/23/lpdforfunandm...
The documentation for Interledger appears to be for people who want to build software, not for people who want to send or receive money. And it talks about setting up accounts with xpring.io or rafiki.money.

I see no evidence that Interledger can be used for receiving money without having to set up accounts or run software. Plenty of evidence to the contrary.

As I said before, to receive bitcoin from one of these systems, there is nothing I should need to do other than advertise my bitcoin address. Anything more than that, and the system sucks.
> but note that by buying an existing forest, no additional CO2 reduction is achieved on a global scale.

A forest that is left untouched acts as a CO2 sink by photosynthesis and "capturing" the CO2 as bio-mass.

A re-forestation of land previously used for agriculture acts as a bigger CO2 sink because the potential for biomass capture is greater there.
$15/m for access to a spreadsheet containing things like "Wordpress" and "Gitlab" seems a bit.. pushing it

Maybe I'm just biased being a dev, but that sample really doesn't seem like anything novel to me.
I think in this case it's probably relevant as it does not exactly make fixing these things easier. For example, later he points out he can't talk the language of the institution this person works at. I don't think it's meant to accuse foreigners of fraudulent science here.
A friend joined a group studying some cell behaviour. They had previously had a big result that they could stimulate this behaviour in defined, serum-free culture by adding a specific factor.

Friend was to work on characterising this effect, so his first job was to reproduce the result as a base case. He couldn't. The factor didn't stimulate the behaviour.

He asked around, comparing his execution of the protocol with that of the the postdoc who had done the original work.

The method involved growing a feeder layer of cells, in serum, then lysing them and washing the plate, leaving a serum-free layer of extracellular matrix behind, as a foundation for the serum-free cell culture (this is a pretty standard technique).

Turns out the previous postdoc's idea of washing a plate was a lot less thorough than my friend's. Couple of quick changes of PBS. So they were almost certainly leaving a lot of serum factors behind on the matrix. Their serum-free culture was nothing of the sort.

The supervisor insisted that the previous postdoc's work was fine, and that my friend just didn't have good technique. The supervisor had him repeat this work for months in an attempt to make it work. But he's a careful worker, so it never did.
Cognitive Scientists & Corporations Alike: Human Minds as Predictive Machines
"Cognitive scientists and corporations alike see human minds as predictive machines. Right or wrong, they will change how we think"
Of course 1.20 has a myriad of additional featues. But 1.0 concepts are in 1.20, the fundamentals are stable. Schedule and run containers, expose them to the external network via a load balancer (or node port).

The declarative aspect is stable. Yes, many people are writing insane go programs to emit templated ksonnet or whatever that itself has a lot of bash embedded, but that's the equivalent of putting too much bash into the aforementioned configuration/orchestration playbooks.
The point is not the size of the effect it is there being an effect at all. The author declares that ones view on climate change is inherently a crony belief because there is no skin in the game not that there isn't enough skin in the game.

In fact people's perceptions of the relative importance of their actions is generally bigger that it really is from a global view. Their natural scope is the tiny world they inhabit not a birds eye view of society.
That's not been the case for a very long time now.
“You can make the same argument in the opposite direction: for those who support unbridled electronic speech amplification, are you prepared for it to fall in the hands of people who are bent on changing minds en masse to fill society with falsehoods, uncertainty, and violence?“

This is truly ironic given that exact abuse has been perpetrated by these tech companies in order to build their empires in the form of advertising and manipulating users on their platforms.

Also, your dismissal of humanism is appalling.
Wait a minute, who does the money go to? Google or the video author?
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l5nphz/gme_...

this guy has a on paper gain of ~22M!
Typically funds will also do a lot of work in selecting the asset, but in this case the hard work is in giving them exposure to an asset they couldn’t otherwise have invested in.
Active Record, Postgres, Rails, and time travel
Sure, I guess i should have been more specific, he was a postdoc who was from a country where getting one really awesome paper in a lab with a moderately good name (which ours was) would be an instant ticket to tenured professorship at the top academic facility in the country. That should give you an idea of the incentives at play. That doesn't necessarily make him sketchy. But he was also a sketchy human.
Somewhat related. IKEA is the largest owner of forests in Lithuania (around 33% of the total land area is forest):

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1104260/ikea-the-bi...

At the time of this article (2019), they owned 66,000 acres of forest in the country.
There’s also “beliefs” that aren’t true in a strict sense, but make the world easier to talk or think about and that make it easier to persuade people of a position. “Human rights” fall into that category. They aren’t true in any straightforward sense, but like you say they encode a system that people would like to live in and provide an easy to conceptualise cognitive and rhetorical shortcut for persuading other people to cooperate in bringing that world about.
Maybe it’s “growing up”, but I agree that Python has definitely changed its focus. It has pivoted towards the handful of companies with “projects with tens and hundreds of developers“ at the expense of the millions(?) of people using it for much smaller projects.

As part of the latter group, I don’t consider this change in focus to be a good thing.
Reduce the refresh rate drastically, augment the number of messages fetched at once (let's say 200), and display them slowly. Should reduce 20 times the load on DB while making no sensible difference for end users anyway.
Forests are not perpetual carbon sinks, as trees eventually die and then decompose, releasing their carbon back into the atmosphere.

At best, a young and growing forest can be a temporary carbon sink, until it reaches maturity (and steady state).

Alternatively, a forest might support continual carbon sinking if and only if the recently dead and/or mature trees were somehow harvested and treated/stored in such a way that their carbon would not decompose and re-enter the rest of the biosphere.
Whatever happened to interviews and CVs? Since when must employers do incursions into private lives of their prospective employees in order to sign off on a hire?
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Netflix audio is available as unencrypted .aac files with no protection whatsoever. Netflix doesn’t use widevine for anything except video.

Here's a typical media manifest for a typical piece of netflix content: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/justjanne/b2cbff54588466f... (identifying data and URLs redacted).

Note how (a) the audio is only 128kbps, and (b) the audio is just directly linked (the files are just aac directly, you can play them in any player).
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I use git-annex [https://git-annex.branchable.com/] for archiving, adding as many so-called remotes as I wish, automatically keeping track of what's stored where and for checking data integrity.

Support for borg remotes was recently added, which I think will be very useful.
The plants are not really consuming CO2 in a grown forest, or more accurately they are consuming and releasing CO2 at the same rate.

A growing forest does consume CO2 more than it releases, but it does not seem to be the case now
Where is the Delphi?
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It will be easier to see who were the useful idiots when the usefulness runs out.